Odysseus Meets The Sirens and Other Gods and Monsters: Traditional Mermaid Folk Stories Collection E-Book

Treehouse Books

• Herausgeber: Treehouse Books
• Kategorie: Für Kinder und Jugendliche
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2023

Beschreibung

This is a short story version of the ancient Greek mythology epic poem, 'The Odyssey' by Homer, about the adventures of a Greek warrior and king, on his ocean voyage home from the Trojan war, that should also be easier to understand. It tells the whole story, but is more centered around Odysseus' meeting with the Sirens and other supernatural and spiritual beings. The story itself still contains a level of violence, that would make it unsuitable for younger children, though anyone else can read it. All our short stories are originals. This is book 8 in our Traditional Mermaid Folk Stories Collection.

Leseprobe

This is a short story version of the ancient Greek mythology epic poem, 'The Odyssey' by Homer, which describes the adventures of a Greek warrior and king, on his ocean voyage home from the Trojan war, that should also be a lot easier to understand, and is centered more around Odysseus' meeting with the Sirens, and other ocean monsters.

The story itself still contains a level of violence, that would make this book unsuitable for younger children. Though anyone else can read it. Please also look out for our other books in this series.

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Once upon a time, in Ancient Greece, there lived a brave and noble warrior called Odysseus, or as he was known to the Romans, Ulysses. Odysseus was the King of a wild and beautiful and remote Greek island, called Ithaca. He had a beautiful wife called Penelope, a loving son called Telemachus, and he was very close to his father, Laertes, who was also a great warrior.

In this famous Greek myth, at this time we meet him in his life, Odysseus had already fought many battles, and overcome great trials and hardships, and he was sailing back home to Ithaca, after having been away for many years, fighting in the Trojan war, against the people of the city of Troy, in Turkey, called the Trojans.

The Trojan war would go down in ancient history, as a very famous war. It had begun when a Trojan Prince, called Paris, had taken the wife of King Menelaus of Sparta, in Greece, as his own wife, when she was given to him, without anyone's consent, by Aphrodite, the goddess of love as a bribe for helping her to win a contest between herself and two other goddeses. Her name was Helen, and she was a prized woman because she was said to have been the most beautiful woman in the world.

So then, King Menelaus had enlisted the Greek armies of a thousand ships full of men, commanded by his own brother, King Agamemnon of Mycenae in Greece, to fight with him, and they invaded Troy, so he could win back his wife, and punish the man who took her, and all his allies.

The war had gone on and on, for ten long years, before the Greeks had finally won, and they did, it at last with an elaborate and clever trick, whereby, they presented the Trojans with a large wooden statue of a horse, as what seemed to be an apology or peacemaking gift, when it appeared that they, the Greeks had lost the war.

But unbeknown to the Trojans, the wooden horse had been made hollow, and the Greeks had filled it with soldiers, quietly waiting inside. So then, when the Trojans opened their gates to accept the horse, and wheeled it inside the walls of their city, the Greek soldiers came rushing out, and took them by surprise and killed them all.

This was a legendary victory for the ancient Greeks, mostly because of this unique and clever strategy, but also because the war had gone on for so long, and had been so difficult and devastating.